parson
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He spoke with the easy grace of a country parson, but no fire and brimstone emanated from his pulpit as he calmly but bracingly recounted what he said was his mother’s family history.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2021
Roy is mirrored in turn by the later appearance of another parson, Preston Teagardin, played by Robert Pattinson with the same lip-smacking comic flamboyance he recently brought to “The King.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2020
In chapter 36, Lucy arrives at the home of a priggish parson, whose wife is desperately ill with typhoid.
From Washington Post • May 26, 2020
In a dreary Yankee prison, the rebel confronts his mortal fate before a parson.
From Salon • Jul. 6, 2018
In fact, after he had given up the idea of medicine, both Charles and his father thought he was going to be a country parson.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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